Hotmail, Yahoo and the first free inbox
A couple of megabytes, a silly address and your whole social life.
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A couple of megabytes, a silly address and your whole social life.
Hello friend,
Before free web email, your address belonged to your school, your employer or the company that sold you your connection. Then a free inbox you could open from any computer turned up, and for the first time your address was yours. It was also, almost always, something like starwars_fan_1982.
Everyone picked a name they thought was brilliant at fifteen and kept it for a decade. The size limit was tiny, so you deleted things to make room, which is why so little of it survives. The Hotmail page has the history of one of the first.
Reply to this email and it comes straight to me.
Imran
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